Author: Paul Gleiser

Mad pursuit.

The ‘mad pursuit of zero’ precludes policy makers and politicians from ever asking, “Will the benefits of doing this outweigh the costs?”

A page from the Nixon playbook.

Elections are never purely about policy. Personality and style and comportment matter – particularly to those voters who can go either way.

What next?

I appreciate Donald Trump. We conservatives will always be in his debt. But what now?

The Elites v. the Folks

Somewhere back there, the political contest quietly shifted from Democrats vs. Republicans to Elites vs. the Folks. It’s almost as if new political parties got formed.

Who will finish the job?

Trump is loathed by the ruling class because he opened the doors, turned on the lights and threw up the window shades.

It starts at school.

Even though information on any topic is readily available with the tap of a finger, the American populace is both less informed and simultaneously more misinformed than at any time in the last century.

Reason in short supply.

I have sympathy for someone who was brought to this country as a child and who has now reached adulthood having never known any other home.

Simpletons in charge.

From a single storm in what has otherwise been a very quiet hurricane season, the Left has conclusive proof of the looming climate apocalypse.

Crisis on the Vineyard.

If one of the wealthiest enclaves in the western hemisphere can’t feed and house 50 impoverished migrants, how do they imagine that a poor town like, say, Eagle Pass, Texas deals with thousands of such migrants every single week?

This isn’t cute anymore.

After pursuing a blindly green energy policy for a couple of decades, Europe’s greenie chickens are coming home to roost.

God save the Queen

For seven decades Elizabeth executed the duties of her office with uncommon grace and dignity.

Has it already started?

A small handful of very powerful people in very powerful corners of our government now believe that their judgement as to who should win elections supersedes yours and mine – and they have the capability of acting on that belief.